Jayanta Ghosal
TMC chief Mamata Banerjee had proposed the names of Sharad Pawar, Farooq Abdullah and Gopalkrishna Gandhi, but the Congress and the Left block reached out to Yashwant Sinha instead
The BJP managed to win Azamgarh with tacit assistance from BSP leader Mayawati. She put up a local Muslim candidate who split the SP vote right down the middle